The government on Tuesday has formed a five-member team headed by deputy Attorney General Drona Raj Regmi to probe the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) helicopter crash.
Ten people had been killed including seven UN staffs - three of them Nepali nationals - in the crash of MI 17 helicopter at Bethan VDC-9 of Ramechhap district on Monday afternoon.
On Tuesday evening, the ten dead bodies have been brought to Kathmandu.
" We have just received the bodies of ten people who have been serving the United Nations in the cause of peace in Nepal and who died in yesterday’s tragic helicopter crash. You will realise that this is a very, very sad day for UNMIN, for the United Nations family in Nepal and for the United Nations family around the world," said Ian Martin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Nepal, after receiving the bodies of UNMIN personnel and helicopter crew at Tribhuvan International Airport.
“We are not able to release the names of international personnel until we know that their families have been officially notified in their countries,” stated a release by UNMIN, adding, “ Those who died were three Nepali staff members, four international arms monitors from different countries and the crew of three with the helicopter.”
Meanwhile, South Korea has also dispatched a five-member mission to Nepal led by a two-star general of the Defense Ministry's Criminal Investigation Command to investigate the crash.
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